Subject: Re: NE2000 ethernet (was: A clearer explanation...)
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/04/2002 12:32:29
In article <Pine.GSO.4.33.0206040210130.29850-100000@math.rice.edu>,
Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu> wrote:
>> > Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2002/06/02/0006.html
>> >
>> > I have an NE2000 PCIMCIA 10/100 card in my laptop.  If memory serves, ne1
>> > and ne2 both get mentioned in dmesg, but only one is actually configured
>> > (why ne0 never, ever shows up is a mystery).
> [...]
>> > On a cold boot, the card really gets bound to ne2.  It literally
>> > alternates from ne2 to ne1 and back again on successive warm boots.  WHen
> [...]
>>
>> Can you send dmesg messages, when it probed as ne1, and when it's probed
>> as ne2 ?
>
>Okay, for the sake of posterity of the list, I'll include the full dmesg.
>(Disinterested parties should skip/delete.  (^&)  I also warmbooted again,
>and diff'ed the second warmboot against the coldboot dmesg.  Those dmesg's
>were identical.  Below are the complete dmesg's, coldboot first.
>
>Oh, one minor correction: ne1 does *not* seem to be mentioned on
>``functioning'' (ethernet-wise) boots.  ne1 and ne2 both get mentioned on
>the alternate boots.

comment out the "ne1 at isa?" line from your configuration. Apparently,
during warm boot the pcmcia stuff is still active and the isa probe
succeeds.

christos